The Second Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (2000)
Date: August 4 (Fri) and 5 (Sat), 2000
Location: Co-op Inn Kyoto
Address: Yanagi-baba Tako-yakushi agaru, Nakagyo-ku,
Kyoto, Japan 604-8113
Phone: +81-75-256-6600
Fax: +81-75-251-0120
Access Info:
Easiest Way: From JR Kyoto Station, 10 min. by Taxi
Cheaper Way: From JR Kyoto Station, Either take a bus (Route 4
and 14), Get off at Shijo-Takakura (Daimaru department store),
or take a subway, get off at Shijo Station, take Exit 13.
And 10 min. walk.
From Kansai Airport, take a bus to JR Kyoto Station, get off at
South Exit of Kyoto Station. And follow the above instruction.
-- Program --
Note
1: The abstracts are available at
http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/JSLS/JSLS2000/ProgramE.html
2: In the program, Language used in the talk is shown as [J] (Japanese)
and [E] (English).
August 4th (Fri)
9:50-10:00 Opening
10:00-12:00 L1 Acquisition (1)
1-J Naomi Hamasaki (Chukyo University)
Timing of Turn Taking of Two-year-olds' responses to Yes-No Questions
2-J Masae Kazama and Jun-ichi Abe (Hokkaido University)
Phonological development in Japanese 4-year-old children:
Examining the correlational relationships with the
other cognitive abilities
3-E Katsura Aoyama (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Quantity contrast in Japanese and Finnish: Differences in
adult production and acquisition
4-E Keiko Nakamura (Keio University)
Polite language usage in mother-infant interactions: a
look at language socialization
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 L1 Acquisition (2)
5-E Ayako Kubota and Peggy Li (University of Pennsylvania)
Universal Ontology and Linguistic Influence on Naming Practices
6-E Harumi Kobayashi (Kyoritsu Women's University)
Learning novel part names with observation of adults' gestures
7-E Takaaki Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Learning Japanese Argument Structure Constructions
15:00-15:10 Break
15:10-16:10 L2 Acquisition (1)
8-E Gisela Jia (City University of New York) and Doris Aaronson
(New York University)
Immigrants learning English in the US: What contributes to
their long-term proficiency in the new language?
9-E Kyoko Baba (Nagoya University)
The Roles of Learners' Vocabulary in Sentence Production
of L2 Composition: A Case Study
16:10-16:20 Break
16:20-17:50 Plenary Talk
Chair: Yuriko Oshima-Takane (McGill University)
Speaker: Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology)
Title: Children's Syntactic Development
Abstract:
Most accounts of child language acquisition use as analytic
tools adult-like syntactic categories and schemas (grammars)
with little concern for whether they are psychologically
real for young children. Recent research has demonstrated,
however, that children do not operate initially with such
abstract linguistic entities, but instead operate on the
basis on concrete, item-based constructions. Children
construct more abstract linguistic constructions only
gradually - on the basis of linguistic experience in which
frequency plays a key role - and they constrain these con-
structions to their appropriate ranges of use only gradually
as well - again on the basis of linguistic experience in
which frequency plays a key role. The best account of first
language acquisition is provided by a usage-based model in
which children process the language they experience in dis-
course interactions with other persons, relying explicitly
and exclusively on social and cognitive skills that children
of this age are known to possess.
19:00-21:00 Reception
August 5th (Sat)
9:00-10:30 L2 Acquisition (2)
10-J Yuko Goto Butler (Stanford University)
Japanese Students' Metalinguistic Knowledge and Strategies
in Their Use of English Articles
11-J Nobuko Kamura (Research Fellow of JSPS (Japan Societ
for the Promotion of Science))
Developmental Sequences of Negation in Japanese as a Second
Langugage (in Japanese)
12-J Tomohiko Shirahata (Sizuoka University)
The acquisition of functional categories: evidence from
Japanese as a second language
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-12:10 Semantics/Discourse
13-J Takashi Nakamura, Tatsuo Hemmi and Asumi Koizumi
(Niigata University)
Semantic feature of specific words in the closing sentences
newspaper articles (in Japanese)
14-J Kazuko Shinohara(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Correspondence between the spatial front-back axis and
temporal concepts in Japanese
15-E Shizuka Lauwereyns (Michigan State University)
Blurry reference - the use of toka 'or something' in Japanese
spoken discourse
12:10-13:10 Lunch Break
13:10-13:40 General Meeting of JSLS
13:40-14:40 Bilingualism
16-J Tomoko Asano and Heidi Harley (New College of the
University of South Florida)
Japanese-English Bilingual Children's Language
Switching in Mixed-Language Conversation
17-E Masahiko Minami (San Francisco State University)
Vocabulary Development in Bilingual and Language-Minority Children
14:40-14:50 Break
14:50-17:50 Symposium
Title: Language use across social contexts:
Pragmatic issues in L1 and L2 acquisition
Chair: Yasuhiro Shirai (Cornell University)
Organizer: Kiyoshi Otomo (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Speakers:
Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Haruko Cook (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Yuriko Kite (Kansai University) and Keiko Sakui
(University of Auckland)
Keiko Nakamura (Keio University)
Discussants:
Masaaki Yamanashi (Kyoto University)
Ruth Kanagy (Independent Researcher)
17:50-18:00 Closing
Alternate
A1-J Junko Sugiyama (Aichi Shukutoku University)
A study of self-repair in Japanese conversation between
native and nonnative speakers
A2-J Koji Suda and Shigenori Wakabayashi
(Gunma Prefectural Women's University)
Pronominal Case-marking by Japanese learners of English:
evidence from production and grammaticality judgement data
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